PPT-Postmodernism(s)

Against Modernism Postmodernism in the 1950s and 1960s began as a revolt against Modernism Modernism was characterised by a deep suspicion of the popular which it considered conventional and bourgeois. A Primer On Postmodernism. “Postmodernism represents a rejection of the Enlightenment project and the foundational assumptions upon which it was built.”. A Primer On Postmodernism. “In some sense evangelicalism – with its focus on scientific thinking, the empirical approach, and common sense – is a child of early modernity.”. Structural Geology. R. C. Fletcher. PGP, University of Oslo. GEOMOD2010, Lisbon, Portugal 9/27/2010. with acknowledgements to:. Ezra Pound, poet. George . Polya. , mathematician. Bill Chapple, structural geologist. Keywords: Postmodernism, Consumer culture, Modernity, Consumer identity, Ethnicity Prasidh Raj SINGH A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature. I. Defining Cultural Studies. “Culture” is hard to define and so is “cultural studies”. It is not so much a discrete approach as a set of practices influenced by many fields. Postmodernism & Truth. Where Did It Come From?. Modernism – . The Enlightenment of Man. Approx. 1700s to early 1900s. Rise of the Humanistic Standard. Humanity is the basis of existence (. Kant. a response to the elitist and bourgeois culture of modernism. post-structuralism (Derrida’s theory of deconstruction, 1966). a response to Humanism in which Man is considered to be an unproblematic hypothesized substitute of God, the embodiment of stability. what can we do?;. where do we go from here?. Reflections on public rhetoric. Warning! This Presentation Contains:. Postmodernism. Unsupported Claims. My Opinion. Balanced Critique. Calls for Sensitivity. 3:. Postmodernity/Postmodernism. Dr. Claudia Stein. What are we talking about? Definition, definition, definition….. Postmodernity. : . This term refers to a set of perceived (sociological, political, economical, . Defining. Modernism. “I haven’t changed my mind about modernism from the first day I ever did it…It means integrity; it means honesty; it means the absence of sentimentality and the absence of nostalgia; it means simplicity; it means clarity. That’s what modernism means to me.”. . Postmodernism is normally applied to the dramatic arts, however has been known to appear in poetry.. ORIGIN. First debuted after World War II, Postmodernism became the new black. This era of writing was highly influenced by current events at the time such as, Genocides of WWII, The Chinese Cultural Revolution, and the mass destruction of cities due to atomic bombs in Nagasaki and Hiroshima. . World Literature II, Abilene Christian University. Text and arrangement © Chris Willerton 2003, 2009. Classroom use only. These images are not cleared for republication.. biography. Jorge Luis Borges (1899- 1986). Ethical Theism. Absolute truth / good. Absolute God. History of Thought. Modernism. Renaissance. Enlightenment. Industrial Revolution. Theory of Evolution. History of Thought. Man arbitrates truth. Empirical science solves problems. Introduction . - The 21. st. Century, especially the _______, is influenced by Postmodernism. . - Postmodernism influences much of what we see in ________, ___________, and ___________. . - Postmodernism is undergirded by ______________. . Introduction to Communication Theory. Comm. 1510-01. M R 4-7:50 PM. Prof. . Matt Rolph. A buzzword … but what does it mean?. Post-atomic uncertainty. One conventional explanation of postmodernism suggests that it arose in response to the discovery of the devastating power of the atomic bomb, and the uncertainty about authority thereby created..